Lorraine News

The skyline of New York, like that of most other major cities in the contemporary world, is strewn with cranes hauling up bits and pieces of new construction.

Stifling heat prompted schools to send students home early and triggered strong thunderstorms that toppled trees, killing a logger and leaving as many as 50,000 homes and businesses without power.

For backyard patriots, the rockets available this Fourth of July are flashier, more creative and louder than ever before.

The UPS vs. FedEx softball game scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, June 7 at the Lansing Town Fields is not just planned as an ordinary ball game, but rather, a very special event to help UPS employee Brian ...

Hours after Thursday's landmark ruling by the California Supreme Court striking down a state law banning gay marriage, the 50-year-old daytime host announced during a taping of The Ellen DeGeneres Show that she ... via New York Times

“Sometimes things happen outside our control”

Manure may be the source of E. coli bacteria contamination in two wells on Route 189. via Watertown Daily Times

“The cleaners discovered more than 10 bodies of long-dead cats in the building”

The man who owns a home on Columbia Street that was referred to as "the cat house" by neighbors has filed a notice of claim for $1 million against the city of Watertown for razing its remains after a fire last ... via Watertown Daily Times

I was dancing a Lindy with my beautiful wife, Lorraine, at a catered wedding in my wife's hometown, Washington D.C. As she twirled gracefully around, I did my favorite step. via Plainview Herald

To learn more, go to www.pressconnects.com/lendahand Samara, from Binghamton, and her husband had seven children to care for when Samara was laid off from her job. via Press & Sun-Bulletin

“There's such a dearth of restaurants all over Westchester, so to have a BLT restaurant come to White Plains is a big deal”

Glasses of pink champagne sparkled on a silver tray. A string quartet played Bach. via Journal News

Cruising the Eastern Mediterranean Short and Concise - Reporting: Walter Winchell Style Flew Olympic Airlines to Athens -9 hours - good food - Didn't sleep one minute - read all the way Ushered to ship [boat - ... via Plainview Herald

Kendra Kassebaum is Lorraine and Jayne Houdyshell is Beverly in Adam Bock's "The Receptionist" at Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center. via The Patent Trader

“We're just continuing to do the best we can to keep the community growing and holding taxes down”

Four candidates are running unopposed for re-election in the town of Hunter. Supervisor Dennis M. Lucas Sr., 56, is seeking his fifth non-consecutive two-year term in office, while councilmen Raymond Legg, 36, ... via Daily Freeman

Those of you who have been reading my columns over the last 11 years have heard me refer to "my beautiful wife, Lorraine." We have been pictured many times in many places. via Plainview Herald

“I don't want to put something on somebody that only is a decoration, that doesn't actually change their appearance dramatically enough that you see them as somebody different, or it doesn't actually change the way they feel about themselves.”

Jay Hugues of Baldwin became a Japanese demon. Jeannea Whitely of Port Washington was transformed into a beautiful bird, and 9-year-old John Jerome of Queens became a monkey king -- an image from ancient Chinese opera masks. All it took was some skillful brushstrokes and about three minutes each.

These are just three of the hundreds of faces painted at Port Washington's recent Bar Beach FamilyFest by Christopher Agostino, his wife, Lorraine, and two employees of his company, Transformation FacePainting. Read more

I used to believe that interior painting was the coup de grace for turning a newly bought house into a home. via TheStreet.com